Evaluation of the Functioning System of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Slovakia

International scientific project: "Social & Solidarity Economy (SSE) as Development Approach for Sustainability in EYD 2015" (Europe Aid/134863/C/ACT/MULTI, Grant Contract: DCI-NSAED/2014/352-248). The University of Economics in Bratislava the responsible institution for research focused on SSE in Slovakia. Applied research design: hypothesis and aim, object, methodology. Specification of determining conditions for efficient SSE activities. Analysis and description of the role of the SSE entities. Evaluation of the attributes of supportive public policy for the SSE activities. Identification and recognition of all possible SSE entities from official public open registers. Confrontation of this selected databases with websites of each concrete SSE entity. Mapping the relevant SSE entities in the SR. Selection of the best relevant representatives of SSE entities. Segmentation of the best relevant representatives of SSE entities according to the adequate quadrant of the Power Map of the evaluated entities. Elaboration of the questionnaire for the research of functioning selected SSE entities in Slovakia. Completion and evaluation of questionnaires. Comparison of the obtained information with involved stakeholders according to their direct experiences. Evaluation and selection of the best practice list for relevant representatives of SSE entities (TOP1+TOP2 -> TOP6). Conclusions and recommendations for science, theory, legislation and practice. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.